P250 | Gunsmoke (Factory New)

Skin overview

P250 | Gunsmoke covers the pistol in a cream-coloured hydrographic with brown curling lines that look like a gel pen doodle of smoke or waves. In Factory New the cream base stays even and the thin brown outlines are crisp across the slide and grip. This is the cleanest way to see the drawing as intended.

Item type: pistol. Industrial Grade is the second tier from the bottom: common skins from drops and collections.

Hydrographic: the pattern is applied as a film over the metal; wear rubs it down to the base, starting with raised parts.

How the skin looks in Factory New

The whole pistol is coated in a cream, slightly warm off-white base covered with brown curling lines that form waves and spirals like a gel pen sketch. On the slide the curls run lengthwise with darker shaded patches near the ejection port, while the frame and grip carry larger rounded swirls that wrap around the panel. The trigger and trigger guard stay in plain steel, and the magazine base has a brown, rusty-looking tone. On worn copies the paint goes first on the slide's top edges, the muzzle end, the front of the frame and the rear corners, then on the raised edges of the grip and the magazine base. Because the base is light, every chip shows as grey metal and stands out clearly.

The cream base is even across the slide, frame and grip, and the brown outlines keep their full sharpness. Edges of the slide and the muzzle show no exposed metal. The float band for this grade is very narrow for this skin, so copies differ little from each other. In game it reads as a clean, bright pistol with a clear drawn pattern.

Factory New wear: float 0.06–0.07

The whole float range of P250 | Gunsmoke is 0.06–0.8; Factory New takes the 0.06–0.07 segment (1% of the scale). The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Origin of the skin

The skin’s collection is The Inferno Collection with 6 skins in total.

It drops from:

• Boston 2018 Inferno Souvenir Package
• DreamHack 2014 Inferno Souvenir Package
• DreamHack Cluj-Napoca 2015 Inferno Souvenir Package
• ESL One Cologne 2014 Inferno Souvenir Package
• ESL One Cologne 2015 Inferno Souvenir Package
• ESL One Katowice 2015 Inferno Souvenir Package

And 2 more — souvenir packages and other sources.

What it costs in each quality

Compared with the Factory New quality, the others go like this:

• Minimal Wear — 3.9× cheaper
• Field-Tested — 6.7× cheaper
• Well-Worn — 7.2× cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 7.2× cheaper

Based on the cheapest SkinOut.gg listing of each quality, otherwise on the market reference.

Among 8 skins of the P250 in the Industrial Grade grade and this quality, this skin ranks 3rd by price, counting from the dearest.

Souvenir version

There is also a the Souvenir version with tournament stickers.

Which stickers suit it

Stickers in brown, sepia, gold or cream tones blend with the doodle and keep the hand-drawn feel. Simple ink-style or black-and-white stickers on the slide work well against the light base. Very saturated neon colours tend to break the calm palette.

What to check before buying

• Look at the slide edges and muzzle first, because the light cream paint shows every chip there as grey metal.
• Compare the float position within the grade, especially in Field-Tested and Well-Worn where the amount of exposed metal varies noticeably.
• A Souvenir version exists, so check whether the offer is a Souvenir or a regular copy and which stickers it carries.
• Check any name tag and applied stickers, as dark or busy stickers can clash with the light doodle pattern.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Collectors who want the doodle pattern fully clean.
• Sticker crafters who need an even cream base as a canvas.
• Conclusion: the grade for those who value the drawing in its intended form.